Update: This topic was granted ‚Solution’. It shares an actionable idea for circular design along with links to external resources that allow rebuild already existing hardware solutions.
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INTRO
A simple way to create circular design is to base it on a unified (open standard) grid. With this all parts can easier be reused and recombined - like with Lego.
There are basically 3 open source projects that do this. All come with extended documentation and are ready to be used, copied…

Precious Plastics is a project that offers the plans to build 4 machines that will allow you to recycle plastics locally.
The machines are open source.
The project is very famous and very well made. Got to their website there you can find the plans for the machines, a forum to ask questions and find answers. You can also check youtube for more tutorials. Many people across the globe have started to build and use the machines locally. Join them!
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This topic was granted ‘Solution’ because it provides a simple way to implement circularity almost everywhere right away and shares a lot of examples where each is it’s own open source tutorial!
#Pre-Use
Pre-Use means to use objects for something different than what they are intended for but leave them completely intact so that the initial use is still possible!
Pre-Use points to existing cases of circular modularity in our already built world!
In this topic we want to grow an…

This topic is granted ‚Solution‘. It was initially shared under the name: ‚ASSEMBLY – BottleLab Berlin: Mehrwert für Mehrwerg‘ and as part of OSCEdays Berlin 2017.
The solution is a 3d printed set of connectors (printed with recycled plastic from old yoghurt-cups) that allow it to transform standard bottles into all kinds of objects for interior design – for example chairs, tables, walls, bars and more!
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Farm Hack is a worldwide community of farmers that build and modify their own tools. “We share our hacks online and at meet ups because we become better farmers when we work together.”
On their website you can find good resources and tutorials as well as a forum where you can ask questions.
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More & What Is This?
#Circularity?
How is this circular? The design principles are not in every case circular. But yo…

#Circular Wedding
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This is a slightly modified and less colourful version of the guide from http://www.socialcirculareconomy.com/circular-wedding.html
#Introduction
One of the most extravagant things that some people end up doing is having a wedding. With that in mind, when we decided to get married, we wanted to be as circular as we possible and where we could, link up with community organisations that help society.
Not only did we enjoy and learn from the process of putting tog…

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Summary
OSCEdays Chennai will focus on developing a board game that children (and adults) can use to learn about the circular economy. The emphasis will be on making gameplay interesting and educational, using elements familiar to players from their local environments. While the event will deal with challenges unique to India, we hope to end up with an adaptable game that can be customized to incorporate local challenges and opportunities anywhere in the world.
Background
We are…

####Sustainable Materials with Materia Brasil
Today I recorded a screencast with Manuela Yamada from Materia Brasil. In the video she guides us through the website of Materia Brasil wich gives access to and shares openly valuable information on sustainable materials.
I will annotate the video in the coming days (when are we talking about what). But you can already take a look.
Stay tuned
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(In the background you can see parts of our workshop where we soon will start to experiment …

Update: This topic was granted ‚Solution’. It shares below in comment 13 a well made document outlining how to make circular economy principles and ideas a key driver in the set up of a community driven local fabrication space. It is on a conceptual meta level but because of it’s density and clarity a great benchmark resource for everyone that want’s to set up such a space.
We are
We are an open community and an Open Biomimicry FabLab based in Rennes, France. We are Biomers and we rock our…

This topic was granted ‚Solution’. It shares an easy to follow guide for circular street art and a link to a website with a big collection of well documented hacks to make your city a bit more circular.
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T H E - C I T Y - I S - O P E N - S O U R C E
The City Is Open Source is a project promoting and researching hacking as the tool to make our cities open and circular.
The project builds a COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTED HACKS everyone can quickly use to transform their cit…

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I Fixit is a company producing and sharing open manuals to enable customers and workshops worldwide to repair smartphones and similar devices.
Repairing is an important factor for any sustainable economy. But most manufacturers don't have an interest in making their products long-lasting or repairable. Some seem to make it even more difficult to do it with every new iteration of their products.
But iFixit got some real hacker spirit! They work till they have found a solution and …

Update: This topic was granted 'Solution'. It was initially shared under the title "Welcome Afforestt, an Open way to reforest". The link to a full documentation about how to set up a forest is shared in the topic.
Hey everyone,
On wednesday I had a great call with Shubhendu Sharma from Afforestt.
You might have seen him in his pretty cool TED talk (4 minutes), explaining how he is able to grow a forest 10x faster without chemical and pesticides.
The methodology is already in Op…

Update: This topic was granted ‚Solution’. It was initially shared under the name: „Workshop – Make Compost Not War, Guerilla Composting“. It contains links to external resources about home Wormcomposting and Bokashi (a special form of composting). It is a good pointer that there are a lot of great open source resources about home composting on the web – forums, videos, websites in several languages. Let this topic be your starting point. Composting is fun!
##Wer sind wir / Who are we
Aria…

Update: This topic is granted ‚Solution’. It shares the link to the Circular Design Guide a collection of marketing and business development oriented methods “to help you understand, define, make, and release circular innovations.” It is design thinking oriented and provides easy to understand and easy to use worksheets for brainstorming sessions for people interested in business development.
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO published a “Circular Design Guide”.…